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NBC's New KNIGHT RIDER Finds Its Showrunner!!
Merrick here...
It's Gary Scott Thompson, Executive Producer on the network's recently shitcanned LAS VEGAS & an alum of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS.
"If you think what the series would be, it's 'The Fast and the Furious' meets 'Las Vegas,'
...says Universal Media Studios Katherine Pope in THIS HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ARTICLE.
Thompson will be joined by Matt Pyken, a producer and/or Executive Producer on QUEER AS FOLK and LAS VEGAS.
We're promised more action & special effects this time around (the schedule softshoed both due to its tight production schedule).
"If you think what the series would be, it's 'The Fast and the Furious' meets 'Las Vegas,'
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bleh
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maybe when the ratings start dipping, they can have KARR return still in his 80s trans-am form and kick the new KITT's ass and then the old KITT somehow returns and together they have brotherly adventures.
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I can't beleive people are excited about this show. The first series was soooooo, LAME.
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
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A shitty movie meets a shitty television series. If that doesn't scream 'SHIT!' I don't know what does.
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the new knight rider car just seemed less advanced than the older one. no turbo boost or ejector seat or any fun stuff. and he works for the FBI now? what happened to the 'lone ranger, man and his horse' idea? it shouldnt be 'fast and the furious meets las vegas', it should be transformers meets 24 or whatnot.
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Fitting.
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with the popularity of transformers lately...i wouldnt be surprised to see a story where some big robot is built and somehow, KITT's brain/personality gets transferred into it. and then to cash in on this, they do a knight rider/transformers toy like they did with star wars.
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A show about the newspaper syndicate.
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as in, this show has does not have talent.
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I mean - isn't that the only reason we ever mention a "showrunner" around here?
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One man. One car. Baddies and a few hot women. Jesus anyone would think the original was Proust. Making it fast, flashy and super 'cool' kinda misses the point. For all his cheese it was The Hoff as a character and the deeply sardonic car that made this show a hit originally. This is following pretty much the same reboot pattern as the Bionic Woman and will be dispensed of just as quickly.
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Right on, but even 24 lost the importance of keeping the focus on the 'one man army' idea - by grounding the action with a strong human anchor ANY show has a much better chance of striking a chord with the audience. Season one of 24 > Tight grip on Jack's fierce determination to fight the threat and keep his family by any means necessary. Season six of 24 > The Jack Bauer and friends hour. Come see what wacky exploits Chloes upto this week!!!
Knight Rider will fail for many reasons but I'm betting the primary one will be lack of a compelling lead actor and/or characterisation -
It didn't try to be cool, it just told good stories. Sure it was Quantum Leap meshed with the Time Travellers Wife but it had leads that had a bit of age/experience behind them, along with a sense of humour and FUN. Shows like Knight Rider will kill off anyone over the age of 30 faster than you can say Logans Run and the only laughs will be provided by a Jar Jar Binks style moron
Bar maybe the obligatory solo shadowy Government Agent/Cigarette Smoking Man/Uncle Ben character that lives on the basis he rams exposition up the leads ass or contributes to a dark ongoing story arc. -
Why doesn't someone remake The Fall Guy!
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Apr 02, 2008 10:34:59 AM CDT
It's like another crappy reboot of an old show meets a quick can
by tvguy4566
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another crappy reboot of an old show meets a quick cancellation.
Sorry, the punchline got cut off
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...crappy Knight Rider remake and endless insipid "reality" shows... oh yeah, and that little show we all used to like before it tanked abysmally, what was is called? "Zeroes" or something like that. Looks like "the peacock" has 80's nostalgia, alright... the pre-Cheers, Fred Silverman 80's of NBC being a permanent laughingstock, joke of a network.
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The showrunner of... Las Vegas?
Why? Why? Why?
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This needs to be put out of its misery before it gets worse. NBC needs to concentrate on giving a full 22 episode third season of Heroes that is amazing. Knight rider wont survive a first season. I'll wager $50 that it wont get beyond the first season.
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A new Knight Rider series could work. But you need a cool car voice and a cool lead actor and some chemistry between them. Whoever was put in charge of Knight Rider fucked it up. Simple as that. This pretty boy Mike Night had only one emotion: earnest. Give some banter between the car and a hero with some flaws and personality would make more sense. Make him a heavy drinker or something and a shaggy roughian type who nevertheless is really good in a fistfight and really smart. Maybe have the car be about protocols and the hero about cutting corners. But either way, find an actor that the camera just loves. Maybe even an acTRESS. And give the hero gadgets that are in the car but can be used remotely so he isnt tied to the car all the time. And then add in some super villain agency with lots of gadgets and colorful bad guys for them to fight. THEN you have a show. But pretty boy hangs out with Val Kilmer's boring voice and fights cardboard cutouts in suits? Best of luck. Battlestar Galactica worked because it was a wholesale fresh re-invention of the old recipe. This Knight Rider attempt is like serving your guests some microwaved leftover pizza. Not so tasty.
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Just throwing that out there.
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All the action and special effects in the world won't save your show as we've recently learned from Bionic Woman. Even a female lead as hot as Michelle Ryan won't save it.
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The Duke Boys' Cousins...
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"Manimal" meets "Barney".
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"BJ and the Bear" meets "the Ropers."
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Wheeeeeeee! ha ha! What a perdicament!
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"Mr. Belvedere" meets "Joanie loves Chachi"?
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"Homeboys from Outer Space" meets "Small Wonder"!
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Yeah, that about sums it up for me.
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"After M*A*S*H" meets "M.A.N.T.I.S."
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"Salvage 1" meets "Dragon Tales"
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"The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." meets HGTV's "Buy Me"
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They bring on Dom DeLuise to play "Capt. Bellybuster" from the A-Team and Greatest American Hero.
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"THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS meets LAS VEGAS"? She sounds like a parody of a parody. And incidentally, what the fuck does LAS VEGAS, or THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS have in common with KNIGHT RIDER?
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WOW. After that, I just can't WAIT to watch the inevitable NBC amalgamation of "You Got Served" and "Hello Larry!"
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title spamming. Only even LESS funny.
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I don't think NBC has figured that out. Journeyman or some other more imaginative series would be better for the network. If they wanted to do KR as a series of Movie specials that would be alright (think Hercules or Rising Son from the early 90's). There'd be more of a chance that Hassellhoff will find the time to devote to it and less opportunity to make this thing into a Bionic Woman style failure. Also they could drop the lead from the backdoor pilot and pull in someone that people would actually enjoy watching in the role. The super geek is this show's bread and butter... and it doesn't seem like they are happy with the product they are being given. I know I won't be watching this series so It's a moot point for me.
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So, it's Fast & Furious meets Las Vegas meets.... Queer as Folk?
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Both franchises were as popular as Knight Rider I think, it's not like knight rider is considered some kind of artistic achievent.. They only reason why we're interested in this is because we watched knight rider as kids, so it made a different kind of impression in us, but it's not like it was better than "las vegas".
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Except the standards are higher, the expectations are lower, and the results will give TWOP a new show to mock.
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Battlestar Gallactica deserved the same kind of quality showrunner based on it's original version (shit), and instead it got a great one, and it became great.. So maybe there was hope for this. Not anymore.
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Apr 02, 2008 6:53:51 PM CDT
Its like Las Vegas without Nikki Cox's Tig Ol' Bitties
by the winged doucheman
Nikki-Mohr Cox I mean (snicker)
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And now produce shit they used to love as children because they have no imagination. I second a Fall Guy remake or Riptide. Tom Servo would play the robot.
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She likes to slum, maybe i gotta shot.I want my V remake and i want it now!
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Is a fucking Rustang.
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I loved that show back-in-the-day. That and *Whiz Kids*. But that was on CBS [but *Riptide* was on NBC]. Then there's always *The Master* but I haven't figured out who would be as cool as Lee Van Klief was.
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That's a pretty interesting idea, Maestro610. Or it would have been.
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Apr 02, 2008 10:43:22 PM CDT
It's like One Life to Live meets the Love Bug (lindsay lohan ver
by rokurgepta
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It's like HOME ALONE 2 meets LITTLE WHITE CHICKS, BIG BLACK MONSTER DICKS 3
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... and this is supposed to be good news???FF's first movie was good, second was to much of a "Bro'" oneliners and the third actually seemed a better movie than the second one. But KITT Street Racing is supposed to be good because?????... Cool now all the idiot teens that have suped-up cars will now have another show to make them think that's it's fine to go nuts in the middle of the afternoon behind the wheel when children are playing outside... Thanks NBC's Gary Scott Thompson (aka Retard!)!! And the Las Vegas feel to it, cool so we'll have one good season then have The driver be able to difuse nuclear weapons when actual Bomb Specialists can't, then run after a bad guy in the middle of the street with a gun, catch him, deliver him to cops and yet not be arrested... FOR RUNNING AROUND TOWN WITH A GUN AND NOT BEING A COP!! Wow...Las Vegas was good for one season, then they just wacked it by maikng the characters run around town solving murders and shit when Investigators can't... Oh and having the guy be an expert on every single piece of technology out there so he's able to get city camera to work for them, make sure that he can crack a highly secure software that was developped by experts within an hour when it would take days or months for actual Hackers to be able to crack it a little bit... Ridiculous, the show is doomed...
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